Re: [gnso-udrp-dt] Recommendations from WIPO on Speakers

[philip.sheppard@xxxxxx]

I like the thought that has gone into WIPOs suggestions and would be
inclined to take them up on all the suggested speakers.
Philip


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> WIPO believes in quality of information and approach.  The success of the
> UDRP is all about substantive expert understanding.  At the 10-May-2011
> webinar, WIPO will make a number of observations on the envisaged process
> and on the UDRP more generally.
>
> On that basis, and for present purposes, we are pleased to submit as the
> WIPO Center's UDRP panelist recommendations, David Bernstein and Tony
> Willoughby.  Mr. Bernstein and Mr. Willoughby are among the most respected
> and appointed of WIPO's 450 UDRP panelists.  With hundreds of WIPO UDRP
> decisions between them, each has authored an extensive body of carefully
> reasoned UDRP jurisprudence (whereby their recorded transfer rate
> incidentally ranks among the most conservative).  Mr. Bernstein and Mr.
> Willoughby have for many years been core faculty members for the annual
> WIPO Advanced Domain Name Workshop, and have heard there a wide range of
> views from counsel and filing parties (both complainants and respondents,
> in-house and outside).  They are eminently qualified to speak on any
> number of UDRP topics.
>
> Both as an Attorney and Complainant, we would recommend Aimee Gessner, of
> BMW.  Ms. Gessner is an Attorney-at-Law (New York, USA), and Solicitor
> (England and Wales), and serves as legal counsel for BMW, a brand owner
> that has filed numerous UDRP disputes with the WIPO Center over many
> years.  Ms. Gessner has also served as faculty for the WIPO Advanced
> Domain Name Workshop, and has extensive experience with the UDRP, and of
> its value and operation from those perspectives, and would be
> well-qualified to speak with authority on the subject.
>
> We also understand that Paul McGrady and John Berryhill have been put
> forward by others as possible speakers.  For the WIPO Center's part, we
> can confirm that both have made numerous appearances as outside counsel in
> many WIPO UDRP cases, and have demonstrated experience and substantive
> knowledge of the UDRP.  While they each will have their own vantage point,
> we believe both would be competent to speak on the subject from their
> relevant practitioner perspectives.
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